Greens and animal welfare groups push for Labor to give timeline for live export ban
by Calla Wahlquist from Environment | The Guardian on (#5YWR1)
Opposition says it will recommit to phasing out live sheep exports from Western Australia but has not indicated when it will do so
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The Greens and animal welfare groups have called on Labor to commit to a timeline for phasing out live sheep exports, after the opposition said it still intended to ban the trade.
Labor told the Alliance for Animals that it will recommit to its policy of phasing out the live sheep export trade, which it announced in 2018 in response to whistleblower videos of a deadly voyage in which 2,400 sheep died.
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